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Tales from the Minnesota Forest Fires

其他書名	A Personal Experience of a Rural School Teacher
出版	Webb Publishing Company, 1912
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZtMvAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Baudette Fire of 1910: The Baudette Fire, also known as the Spooner-Baudette Fire, was a large wildfire that burned 300,000 to 360,000 acres (1,200 to 1,500 km2) in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, including nearly all of the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette on October 7, 1910. In addition to Baudette, the fire also burned the villages of Graceton, Pitt, Williams, and Cedar Spur. Damage was horrific yet less so in the communities of Zipple, Roosevelt, Swift and Warroad in the U.S. and Straton, Pinewood, Rainy River, and Sprague across the river in Canada which also suffered losses ... The aftermath of the fire was bleak. The smoke-laden, wind-blown streets, the towns barren except for the piles of rubble from the burned buildings and in the country land was covered with ashes. By the end of the day the villages of Cedar Spur, Graceton, Pitt, Baudette and Spooner lay in ruins. Four hundred thousand acres were blackened. Homesteads across the county were destroyed and 43 lives were lost.